They say a picture is worth a thousand words. These
pictures were taken of Ron Fuller (Chair of ABC Board) at a hearing of the ABC
Board where the Attorney was appealing the Board's decision to grant a private
club liquor license to a public restaurant in a dry county - Sai Thai Cuisine
restaurant in Jonesboro. Below see a transcript of one of Ron Fuller's tirades
at this hearing that reflect the same attitude as his pictures do.

The attorney was trying to verify whether or not this
public restaurant did indeed qualify for a liquor license under the laws of
Arkansas. The ABC Board has granted The tirade below aimed at the attorney by
Chair of the Board Ron Fuller reflects the same attitude exemplified in the
pictures that he has for those opposing the permits.
142 private club licenses for liquor licenses have been granted in dry counties
in Arkansas in the last seven years.

About middle way through the approximate 2 hour
hearing:

Question by Attorney. Schmidt: "I have not seen an
actual amendment to the by laws other than just a brief minute that explained
they wanted to apply for a permit."

"Ron Fuller angrily: Well
it is not their requirement to send you one!. It is your requirement if you
want to dig anything up, call up here and ask us. Okay.

"It is not our job to
make your case for you; it is our job to listen to what kind of restaurant this
is going to be and vote for the man with the alcohol permit.
And if I seem a little disgusted, it is because I am.Our attorneys have gone ahead and looked at all of
this and approved it.

"You haven't been here
before. I have been down this road ten years, okay . Almost everybody on
the board has been here 20 years. We see a lot of that. And I realize that
you are new on the scene here for Bob. And I realize that you want to make your
record and what have you. And Bob gets in here and tapes everybody so he can
take it back and show everyone how disgusted we all look. Well, we probably do
sometime because we hear this constantly. And 99.9% of the time it has nothing
to do with the permit. And the permits get either approved or disapproved
based on whether we think we have a good applicant. So make all the points,
but there will be some point I am going to direct you as being repetitive on
this stuff and move forward. I am not going to do it yet, so go ahead and let's
get through. We have another hearing at 3:00, and I don't want Bob to have
to get back to Jonesboro at 10:00 tonight.

[Fuller is personally ridiculing Bob Hester who has been
there opposing them many times throughout this tirade. He made several other
sarcastic remarks about Bob in the hearing. It is quite clear as evidenced by
the pictures above that they are only listening because it is required of them.
They don't plan to pay any attention.]

Note the following comments about the ABC Board at the
Dry County Coalition Rally on the Capitol steps at Little Rock with about 1,000
people present that also verify the arrogance of the ABC Board and their disdain
and contempt for the people trying to keep liquor out of their dry counties.

Attorney and Judge Paul Gant:

(Describing
His Experience with the ABC Board)

One of the things that I require in my court is some form
of order, some form of right, some form of due process that is guaranteed to
each and everyone of us. As soon as I asked a question of the applicant in
an adversarial way, J. J. Vigneault [ABC Board Member] attacked me like an
animal. And it was obvious that he could not spell "due process," and he did
not understand that I had a right to ask this applicant any question I wanted
to.

Larry Thomas
Alcohol Rally May 30, 09:

"Let me explain how we did come into existence. We came
into existence because of something that happened in Cleburne County that had to
do with the Alcohol Beverage Control Board (ABC) - when all of the city
officials of our community in Heber Springs and Cleburne County signed a
petition, and some went before the ABC Board and testified against the Club that
was about to be granted a license, or we assumed that it would be. And
because, in my opinion, of the rude treatment that they received when they were
there, I am talking about Chiefs of Police, talking about County sheriffs, I am
talking about Mayors; I am talking about Councilmen that we don't believe got a
fair shake. And the only reason they were there was because of the safety
of our citizens in Cleburne County, and that is why they took their stand for
that and suffered because of their stand immensely. … and their testimonies were
not considered as it should be in the laws of our land."

"I don't know how many attorneys I have talked to in our
state that told me it is useless; it is a waste of time to go down there any
more. We don't carry any weight. Mayors don't carry any weight. Sheriffs
don't carry any weight. Police chiefs don't carry any weight. We have no
clout. They make their rulings, and it is hopeless."

"They are supposed to take into consideration the law
says, the testimonies of policeman, county sheriffs, mayors, of councilmen, etc.
but I am going to give you example after example where those were thrown out the
window. "